S M Naseem

  • Remembering Ercelaan

    In the passing away of Aly Alp Ercelaan, in a Peshawar hospital on November 26, Pakistan’s economics profession has been robbed of a highly...

  • Institutional autonomy in Pakistan

    The recent kerfuffle about central bank autonomy in Pakistan is unraveling some basic fissures in Pakistan’s economy, confronting which our...

  • Simplicity with a twist

    Imran Khan’s maiden speech as the prime minister of Pakistan has had a widespread and a generally favourable reception. The central theme that...

  • In defence of the ‘looters’

    The Bahawalpur petrol tanker disaster resulted in over 200 deaths and severe burn injuries to another 50 people. The tragic incident has evoked a...

  • Globalisation with a military face

    For some time, the populists across the world have been celebrating the “highly-exaggerated” news of the demise of globalisation, with...

  • In memory of Nigar

    Nigar Ahmad, a close friend and a former colleague at the economics department of Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, passed away on Friday,...

  • The trilemma of developing states

    The focus of this year’s 32nd annual meeting of the Pakistan Society of Development Economists was almost exclusively on the...

  • Education in the time of terror

    Two harrowing wake-up calls – the Taliban attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December 2014 that saw over 140 children killed, and...